The survey, Getting to Know Gen Z,

Like the millennials before them, Generation Z grew up as digital natives, with devices a fixture in the learning experience. According to the survey results, these students want “engaging, interactive learning experiences” and want to be “empowered to make their own decisions.” In addition, the students “expect technology to play an instrumental role in their educational experience.”

to cater to the digital appetites of tomorrow’s higher education learners, technology in education will need to play a bit of catch-up, states the New Media Consortium’s 2015 Course Apps report. According to NMC’s analysts, digital-textbook adoption was one of the leading trends helping to reinvent how higher education students learn. But publishers have not captured the innovations happening elsewhere in the digital marketplace.

The Generation Z report ranked the effectiveness of 11 education technology tools:

1. Smartboards
2. Do-It-Yourself Learning
3. Digital Textbooks
4. Websites with Study Materials
5. Online Videos
6. Game-Based Learning Systems
7. Textbook
8. Social Media
9. Skype
10. Podcasts
11. DVD/Movies